Sea of Shadows Idaho Premiere!

I’m extremely excited to be traveling to Sun Valley this coming weekend for the Idaho premiere of Sea of Shadows!  Sun Valley Film Festival has been brining high caliber films and Hollywood celebrities to the mountains of Idaho since 2012.  It’s mountain resort town location and celebrity guests have drawn numerous comparisons to Sundance Film Festival. But Sun Valley Film Festival …

How the Wild Lens Collective got involved with the new film Sea of Shadows

In the spring of 2017 Wild Lens released the half hour documentary Souls of the Vermilion Sea about the struggle to save the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal.  We had a very targeted outreach and distribution plan for this film – we wanted to use the documentary as a tool to influence the outcome of the issue through …

What has Wild Lens done since the Release of Souls of the Vermilion Sea to help the vaquita and the local community?

In the spring of 2017 fellow Wild Lens filmmaker Sean Bogle and myself were driving from my home in Boise, Idaho towards the Mexican border.  We had just completed work on our 30-minute documentary film about the vaquita – the world’s most endangered marine mammal – and we were heading towards the epicenter of the vaquita issue – San Felipe, …

Our final shoot of 2015 for Souls of the Vermilion Sea – It’s a Wrap!

Although we still have lots of filming ahead of us for this project, this marks the final filming expedition of this year.  This story has so many complex facets that we have many more trips to Mexico and China planned for the future.  As for now, we have to review everything we have captured thus far. During the last leg …

Souls of the Vermilion Sea Producer’s Meeting

This past week the producer’s of our newest documentary project, Souls of the Vermilion Sea converged on California’s Bay Area for an intensive, three day producer’s meeting. Production began on this new project back in May of this year when Sean Bogle first visited San Felipe, Mexico. A lot has happened over the past few months, with many exciting new developments in …

EOC 030: Vaquita Conservation in Mexico with “Mr. Vaquita” Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho

Episode Summary: Today on the show we’re talking with Dr. Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho who is the head of marine mammal conservation and research for the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Mexico. Lorenzo shares with us so much more than a basic history of the conservation of the Vaquita – he has an inside perspective on how conservation works …

EOC 028: Barbara Taylor’s Mission to Save the Vaquita

Episode Summary: Dr. Barbara Taylor is on a life-long mission to save the vaquita from extinction. She has been working with this critically endangered porpoise for over 30 years, and although her specialty is in population genetics, she has branched out to many different fields in her pursuit of this goal. Barbara gives us a breakdown of how vaquita conservation …